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• You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

  George MacDonald

  Being Strong, Courage, Dark

  George MacDonald (1904). “The Day Boy and the Night Girl”, p.48, Library of Alexandria

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• It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  J. C. Watts

  Love, Motivational, Letting Go

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• Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Being Strong, Running, Courage

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

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• If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

  H. G. Wells

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  "The Anatomy of Frustration". Book by H. G. Wells, 1936.

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• What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

  Salma Hayek

  Believe, Important, Discouraged

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• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

  Betty Eadie

  Weakness, Thoughts And Words, Our Thoughts

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• The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Perseverance, Adversity, Caring

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.60, tredition

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• Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Women, Humor, Sassy

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• We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

  Martha Grimes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self Esteem

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• Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.189, Island Press

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• Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Success, Being Strong

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

  Thomas Paine

  Being Strong, Perseverance, Men

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Strong

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Being Strong, Loneliness, Lying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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  Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

  John Muir

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• Stand up, be bold, be strong.
  Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders,
  and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strong, Responsibility

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.159, Vivekananda Kendra

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• The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

  Muhammad

  Being Strong, Powerful, Islamic

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• It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

  Wendell Willkie

  Being Strong, Peace, War

  Speech accepting nomination as Republican candidate for president in Elwood, Indiana (August 17, 1940); as quoted in "This Is Wendell Willkie" by Wendell Willkie, (p. 273 - 274), 1940.

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